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[338] The very rare neglect of the “ϝ” of “ϝοι” led Heyne to conj. “ὅ” for “ὅν”, though “πέπλον” as neuter is not found in H., nor indeed anywhere except in the form “πέπλα” in very late authors (cf. on 6.90). Another easy correction, made by Nauck and others, is “αἱ” for “οἱ”. Still better, perhaps, is Brandreth's “ὃν ἄρ”, cf. “ὅν ῥ᾽ αὐτὴ ποιήσατο” 735. But in a fragment of the Kypria we find “εἵματα μὲν χροῒ ἕστο τά οἱ Χάριτές τε καὶ Ὧραι ποίησαν”, and this is certainly the more Homeric construction, cf. 14.178 “ἀμβρόσιον ἑανὸν ἕσαθ᾽, ὅν οἱ Ἀθήνη ἔξυσ᾽ ἀσκήσασα” (similarly Ap. Rhod.iv. 424). The line is superfluous, and as we should not expect the garment to cover the “πρυμνὸν θέναρος”, it may well be interpolated.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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